Only lose by 20 points! When Japan forced Australia to change back to the main force at the end of the day, did Qiao Shuai regret the change in the first game?
When the Japanese men's basketball team forced Australia to switch back to the main team in the final quarter, it continued to lead all Asian teams in terms of record and goal difference. I wonder if Chinese men's basketball head coach Jordjevic regrets his first substitution? Or will Qiao Shuai realize that he has a problem with Serbia's late substitution?
On the evening of August 29, Beijing time, the Japanese men's basketball team lost to Australia 89-109 in the final game of the group stage and did not qualify from the group. Although it lost by 20 points, the perception of the Japanese men's basketball team was obviously far different from the Chinese men's basketball team that defeated South Sudan a day earlier.
The first reason is that Australia's strength far exceeds that of South Sudan, and they are one of the strongest teams in this World Cup with many NBA players. Second, because the Japanese team worked very hard, although it trailed by 27 points with 3 minutes left in the third quarter and looked like it had collapsed, but at the end of the third quarter, the Japanese team chased only 17 points behind, and the game not only did not spend, but let the Japanese team force Australia to change back to the main force in the final quarter, and Mills, Giddy and other main players were replaced in the last 1 minute and 15 seconds.
Therefore, the match of the Japanese men's basketball team has once again been widely praised.
While Japan has been catching up with the game and trying its best to close the point gap, it can't help but raise doubts about the substitution decision of the head coach of the Chinese men's basketball team in the first game against Serbia.
Also facing opponents who are far superior to their own, the Chinese men's basketball team trailed by 24 points after Hu Jinqiu's hit in the final quarter. But more than a minute later, Qiao Shuai chose to substitute, replacing Cui Yongxi with marginal Zhu Junlong, and replacing Zhao Rui with Hu Mingxuan in the last 2 minutes and 42 seconds, Hu Jinqiu with Wang Zhelin, and Zhao Jiwei and Fu Hao in the next round.
To be clear, Zhu Junlong, Fu Hao and Hu Jinqiu are currently the players with the fewest minutes on the team, and they are also marginal. But among them, Hu Jinqiu's strength is obviously one notch higher, but it is not recognized by Qiao Shuai. In the first game, Daqiu hit a mid-range shot as soon as he came on the court, and scored again on the second offense, and the defensive rebounding and defensive dismantling were also good. But Qiao Shuai finally replaced the in-form Wang Zhelin, and as a result, Wang Zhelin made a mistake and a foul after coming on the field and sent the opponent a free throw. Zhu Junlong made a mistake, missed three points and fouled once after he came on the court, Fu Hao missed a three-point shot and scored a two-point shot after he came on the court, and Hu Mingxuan missed two free throws and made a mistake.
No matter how you look at it, replacing Hu Jinqiu is an unreasonable choice, and replacing Wang Zhelin, Zhu Junlong, Fu Hao and Hu Mingxuan is also debatable. But Qiao Shuai did just that, and after the game, he was a little angry with the reporter asking Hu Jinqiu about his lack of playing time, questioning the reporter's suspicion of his substitution.
In the end, the Chinese men's basketball team was played 18-0, a game that could lose about 30 points or less, and finally lost by a full 42 points. When Hu Jinqiu came off, Serbia played 6-0 in two and a half minutes, and the performance was not good. But in 2 minutes and 42 seconds after Hu Jinqiu came off, Serbia played 12-0. Hu Jinqiu alone is certainly not enough to change the trend of the game, but replacing him with good offensive efficiency, replacing Wang Zhelin, who is not in good form, and other players are not good choices.
Qiao Shuai could have let Hu Jinqiu play more at that time, and Li Kaier was still looking for form on the court at that time, and Qiao Shuai could continue to keep Choi Yongxi on the field to maintain vitality and defense (after the last 3 minutes and 52 seconds, the last 21 seconds did not appear). Zhang Zhenlin, who disappeared after the opening breakout, is in the year of the fight, and can continue to stay on the field to find his form (only played 18 minutes in the game). Or, if Qiao Shuai doesn't replace all of these players, he can at least replace Hu Jinqiu and Choi Yongxi later, or let Zhang Zhenlin play again in the last quarter instead of letting him clock out with 3 minutes and 49 seconds left in the third quarter. Even if you choose one of them, the Chinese men's basketball team may not be enough to lose by 42 points.
Qiao Shuai did this without considering that Asian teams might eventually have to calculate their goal difference to compete in the results and thus decide who can go to the Olympics. Or Qiao Shuai may think that the Chinese men's basketball team can completely win South Sudan, but no matter how resourceful the commander is, he should also make a plan B and a way back to make everything clear. After all, there are too many factors that cannot be determined by yourself, such as Japan's upset defeat of Finland, which no one expected. Another possibility is that Qiao Shuai did not watch the World Cup four years ago, and the Chinese men's basketball team lost to Iran in terms of net victory and did not have the opportunity to go straight to the Olympics.
With Qiao Shuai's such willful substitution at the end of the game against Serbia, the Chinese men's basketball team eventually lost by 42 points, and now lags behind many Asian teams such as Japan in terms of net score. In the next difficult upset victory over Puerto Rico, the World Cup of the Chinese men's basketball team is also mudder than four years ago, and the prospects for Olympic qualification are even less optimistic.